Bloomberg wasn't really playing the piano at the Mayor's Awards for Arts and Culture in Lincoln Center.

The nation's largest public school system will be headed by the head of Hearst Magazines and former publisher of USA Today, as Mr. Klein departs for a job at the News Corporation.

In New York Online: There's no such thing as too fast or too slow. Or too cobweb-covered.

Higher wages in the financial services field, but for now, fewer people making them.

Carlotta Brett-Pierce, the mother of a 4-year-old girl who weighed 18 pounds when she died, received charges of two counts of murder in the second degree and one count of manslaughter in the first degree.

A new documentary follows the lives of three high-school poets, sans neat Hollywood ending.

Playing to the captive audience in the back seat of a cab, Human Rights Watch is running a 30-second ad urging that the Sept. 11 terror trials be held in New York City.

Also in the Morning Buzz: a stretch of small businesses in Queens as a microcosm of the economy, Cuomo's transition plans, and other regional news.

Philip Carlo, chronicler of mass murderers and survivor of Lou Gehrig's disease, succumbs to cancer.

Ninety-five percent of first responders in the suit must accept the settlement for it to take effect.

The building, across West 57th Street from Carnegie Hall, is known for its illustrious occupants.

In New York Online, various urban scourges dance around the city.

In New York, 4,000 miles from their homeland, Guineans go to the polls.

With a runner's heart if not a runner's body, a woman sets out to finish the marathon.

Disturbed during renovations, but laid once more to rest.

The wanted man, Earl Barranco, was arrested at a Charlotte Bobcats game Saturday night.

In one of the busiest transportation hubs in the city, two commercial spaces remain empty.

Vinyl siding: so uncool it's cool? Or, uh, yuck.

Off the Rails: The constellations on the ceiling of Grand Central Terminal will better reflect the size and intensity of the actual stars.

A spate of murders that began Saturday night continued on Monday.